BREAKING: Israel has launched simultaneous attacks on Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, medical sources tell Drop Site. We are tracking the situation closely and will share updates below. 🧵👇
Director of Indonesian Hospital reports a distress call from medical staff regarding heavy gunfire inside the facility and a power outage that has left the generator inoperable. Several newly injured patients have just arrived and urgently need care.
The upper floors of Al-Awda Hospital in the Tel al-Zaatar area of northern Gaza have just been targeted three times by Israeli artillery, resulting in injuries among the medical staff at the hospital.
Israeli forces have demolished part of the wall of Indonesian Hospital. Dr. Marwan Sultan, the hospital’s director, warns that the attacks present significant risks to both medical staff and patients.
A medical source tells Drop Site that the upper floors of Indonesian Hospital were targeted with artillery. More than 40 patients are inside the hospital, in addition to medical staff, along with a displaced individuals who were targeted by Israeli forces in front of the hospital gate.
There is no electricity, and heavy gunfire can be heard. Patients and medical staff are in a state of great panic.
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1. The Israeli army launched a barrage of rockets across Lebanon, including 12 in Beirut’s suburbs, after announcing its targeting of the al-Qard al-Hassan financial institution’s offices.
2. Israel has announced plans to strike Hezbollah’s “economic power,” specifically Qard al-Hassan and potentially other civilian institutions. These institutions are vital for over 300,000 Lebanese who rely on them for interest-free loans. This action represents a strategy aimed at further impoverishing Lebanon’s vulnerable communities, particularly those supporting Hezbollah.
(As noted by Amal Saad, lecturer in politics and international relations at Cardiff University and leading expert on Hezbollah and the Lebanese-Israeli conflict. Read her full post 👇)
3. The official X account for the State of Israel announced the launch of the missile strikes against financial institution offices across Lebanon, with a statement that concluded with the phrase, “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”
Dr. Sidhwa wrote the widely circulated article for the New York Times on Palestinian children dying from gunshot wounds in Gaza. He traveled there with the Palestinian American Medical Association (PAMA), a medical aid organization.
Israel has now barred PAMA and four other American medical aid organizations from entering Gaza. 👇/1
“The @WHO reports today that Israel has banned five American aid agencies from working in Gaza. Israel gave no reason, but are all organizations with Arab leaderships.”
@WHO @FerozeSidhwa Dr. Sidhwa is calling on @POTUS and @VP to publicly announce that until the ban on American aid agencies is reversed, Israel will not receive American military aid.
📤THREAD: U.S. Officials Urge Israel to Address Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin sent a letter to Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer and Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, stressing Israel’s obligations under National Security Memorandum-20 (US policy) and March 2024 assurances. The U.S. has set a 30-day deadline for Israel to act, warning of potential policy implications.
Here’s what’s in the letter 🧵
▪️Key Concerns
1.Humanitarian Situation:
- Over 2 million civilians in Gaza face worsening conditions.
- 1.7 million people evacuated to a narrow coastal zone are at high risk of lethal contagion.
2.Decline in Aid:
- Aid deliveries have dropped by more than 50% since March 2024.
- In September, nearly 90% of humanitarian movements between northern and southern Gaza were blocked.
NOW: Israeli forces have launched at least two missiles at dozens of displaced people sheltering in tents at Al Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza. The outpatient clinic building was also hit in the attack, causing a fire to spread in the area.
DropSite shares a voice note received late last night from Jabalia, North Gaza, where Israel’s large-scale military offensive has already killed more than 120 Palestinians. Hospitals have been ordered shut, and the last functioning bakery destroyed. 🧵⬇️
“We are currently displaced south of Jabaliya. We were displaced 4 days ago [on Monday] due to artillery shelling. What forced us to leave was that a house next to us was targeted by an Israeli airstrike, killing everyone in it.”
“Then there was random artillery shelling, which forced us to take shelter in the basement. We could hear the sound of people and their screams, but none of us could go out to help.”